“Declan.”
My name in his voice, wrecked and unguarded, nearly ended me.
I pressed against him again, harder. His hips jerked into mine. The friction was filthy, urgent, almost adolescent in its desperation, and none of that made it less overwhelming. His free hand fisted in the back of my shirt. Mine stayed firm around his pinned wrist.
He was breathing too fast now.
Not panic. Not overload. Need.
Still, I checked.
“Color.”
He dragged in air. “Green. Don’t stop.”
I kissed him before I could answer that. I kissed him until his mouth went pliant and greedy, until the rhythm of our bodies turned rougher, cocks dragging together through fabric, heat building with every hard grind. He was close. I could feel it in the shake of his thighs, the way his focus narrowed to my mouth, my hand, the pressure between us.
I was close too.
That was what forced sense back into me.
Not enough. Barely.
I tore my mouth from his and stopped my hips.
Jace made a raw, furious sound and tried to follow.
I pinned him with my body, forehead nearly touching his, both of us breathing like we had just finished a shift.
“Not here.”
His eyes opened.
The words hit him exactly as they had hit me when I said them the first time, but this time there was no retreat in them. No denial. Only control hanging by a thread.
He stared at me, mouth swollen, cheeks flushed, wrist still held against the wall.
For one second I thought he would argue.
Then his fingers opened against the brick.
“Okay,” he said, barely audible.
I released his wrist slowly. He lowered his arm like it took effort.
I stepped back because if I didn’t, I would put my hands on him again and prove I had learned nothing from wanting him.
His shirt was wrinkled. His hair was worse. His lips looked thoroughly kissed.
Mine probably did too.
I fixed my jacket with hands that were not as steady as I needed them to be.
“You’re going back inside,” I said.
His expression sharpened with immediate protest.
“To get your jacket,” I continued. “To tell Roman you’re leaving. Then you come to my room in twenty minutes.”
